Political caricature of the freshest round of suspected WMD use by the Assad regime in Syria

People around the world hav seen the latest round of videos, showing the apparent result of WMD use in Syria this week.

Apparently it’s OK for the Syrian army to wantonly kill hundreds of men, women and children for little or no reason. This is especially true if there are United Nations observers and experts in the use of biological, chemical and other weapons of mass destruction are on the ground, just a 15 minutes drive from the suspected site of the attack.

You see, as long as the WMDs are not confirmed, then those confirmed killed in the conflict are just victims of “conventional warfare”. And hey, why shouldn’t that be OK? Why should so many hundreds and thousands of dead bodies amount to any reaction from activists, diplomats and politicians?

According to China and Russia, Syria has the right to pick and choose when and where international observers can try to study the suspected sites and incidents of WMD use, and nothing can be done about it until any suspicious is confirmed and reconfirmed ad nauseum. And despite their mealy-mouthed protestations, France, Britain and the United States have yet to do much in the way of a strong reaction. Except of course for the Syrian rebels being trained in Jordan, by Jordanian and American forces, supervised by Israeli commandos.

Bottom line, as long as Bashar Assad avoids getting caught red-handed, the price of blood of the Syrian people remains a cheap commodity on the open market.

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The trouble with denials

President Bashar al-Assad has long denied there being any Syrian chemical weapons arsenal of any kind, despite evidence to the contrary. That makes the irony of Israel’s latest hit on a Syrian convoy allegedly carrying chemical weapons from Syria to Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon even funnier in a macabre sense.

This Syrian chemical weapons editorial cartoon features a caricature of Bashar Assad wearing a gas mask in the middle of an open landscape, with a bombed out truck carrying chemical weapons, and a fighter jet marked with the Israeli symbol of the six pointed star, or Magen David, flying in the skies above what is presumably the Mediterranean Sea in the background. There are also two red rays (not quite red lines) in the image, represented in the small Syrian flag lapel pin and the red neck tie, both worn by Mr. Assad.

Red lines are, of course, something of a catch phrase which were bandied about quite a bit during this period of time, as they had been uttered by U.S. President Obama in relation to the possible actions the United States might take, should it be proven that the Syrian regime had used chemical weapons or WMDs of any kind within the confines of Syria’s Civil War.

This comic strip panel was published by Laughzilla for the political cartoon of May 4, 2013 by Oy Vey – for the enjoyment of people who may see what is and what is not.

It is the first political cartoon published by Oy Vey since the Life During Wartime cartoon, which appeared in the Autumn of the previous year.

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